Authentication problems with ldap

Dan Yefimov dan at nf15.lightwave.net.ru
Mon Sep 22 23:06:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:23:34PM +0400, Dan Yefimov wrote:
> 
> > You must use pam_ldap.so module in order to be able to authenticate against 
> > LDAP servers since pam_unix.so doesn't use NSS.
> 
> Er, false.  pam_unix *does* use NSS for authentication; the only thing it
> can't use NSS for is password changing.
> 
Sorry, I was not right about pam_unix.so and NSS. Thanks for correction, Steve!
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    Sincerely Your, Dan.




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